News of blue chip swap

Argentina imposes new restrictions on parallel exchange rates

11-07-2021 08:31 Government moves to limit operations in the parallel exchange rate known as the blue-chip swap rate.

Argentina’s peso mess is delivering windfall profits to brokers

14-04-2021 15:12 In Argentina, financial markets are all but dead. From stocks to bonds to traditional foreign-exchange venues, trading volumes are razor thin. Except, that is, in one unusual corner.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina gives Templeton, Pimco chance to trim peso holdings

09-11-2020 18:04 Argentina is giving some of its largest bondholders the chance to trim their holdings in one of the world’s worst-performing currencies, offering to swap their local peso securities for dollar-denominated assets.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina can avoid a devaluation, says Domingo Cavallo

30-10-2020 14:35 Former economy minister Domingo Cavallo tells Bloomberg in an interview that it’s still possible to avoid a one-off devaluation of the peso.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina’s new bonds plunge deep into distressed territory

21-09-2020 17:11 Argentina’s new dollar bonds have plunged back into distressed territory just two weeks after the nation restructured almost US$65 billion in debt.

Bloomberg

Peso to weaken against dollar even more, says top forecaster

16-01-2020 07:44 Analyst predicts peso may reach 100 per greenback by end of the year – a 40 percent decline from the official rate now.

Bloomberg

Investors stuck in Argentina rush to local corporate bond market

11-10-2019 10:34 Foreign investors are starting to flock to Argentina’s usually sleepy local corporate-bond market, desperate to reinvest cash stuck in the country due to recently imposed capital controls.